I Turned Left!

Ok, well, I didn't turn so much as breathe, but I just love that Zoolander movie. Anyway, swimming is going good. The breathing is the issue. I am getting to where breathing on the right side is pretty automatic, but the left side... I will almost drown trying to do the left. I am always just so tired. So then someone made a suggestion that somehow never occurred to me. I was talking about my "drills", and by that I mean the order in which I do repetitive tasks in the pool. I always do stretching first, then stroke work without breathing, then I start with the right side, then the left, then alternating. By the time I get to left, I am already tired, so my friend says, "well, why don't you just start with left next time." Yeah, I'm a Ph.D. student... that doesn't always mean I think like one I guess. Or maybe I do... since I hate left so much, I just put it off. So today I tried out this new method of left, then right. Turns out it works! I did left just fine. And since I'm so much better at right, the fact that I was tired didn't slow me down. Woo hoo, no water guzzling for this chica today.